Season 8 - Episode 12

Rick goes to the Queen's Park legislative building in Toronto to see what a day is like in the life of David Onley, Ontario's first Lieutenant-Governor with a visible disability. Rick also checks out the vintage snowmobile races in Kincardine, ON.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 2May 23, 2014 | 22:22This week Rick heads to Winnipeg where he learns how to escape from a vehicle submerged in a lake and then he joins Winnipeg's popular Goldeyes baseball team for a lesson and helps around the stadium.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 19Mar 29, 2011 | 22:29Rick checks out the abundant moose population in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. Then he's off to the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, and Espanola High School in Ontario, to acknowledge the top fund-raisers in the annual Spread the Net Student Challenge.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 18Mar 22, 2011 | 22:28Tonight Rick is at Toronto's Air Canada Centre to help the crew convert the building from a Maple Leafs to a Raptors game---from hockey to basketball--in just six hours. He is also at Brentwood College School, in Mill Bay, BC to join the rowing team.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 17Mar 15, 2011 | 22:31Rick is in Niagara Falls where he joins the crew of the Niagara Tunnel Project, an enormous tunnel boring project around the Falls (10 kilometers long; 14 meters wide). Rick finds out how to run 'Big Becky', the largest tunnel-boring machine in the world.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 16Feb 22, 2011 | 22:28Rick is at the Pet Fun Fest in Toronto where he joins hundreds of dogs competing in dancing routines, water plunging, and other canine challenges. Then he's off to Gananoque, Ontario for Pondarama, where he participates in the Thousand Island Pond Hockey Championship and World Pond Curling Championship.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 15Feb 15, 2011 | 22:30Rick heads to Yellowknife to check out how Buffalo Airways of the series 'Ice Pilots NWT' supplies isolated communities across the north in sub-zero temperatures. He's also in Halifax with our top young athletes for the Canada Winter Games.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 14Feb 8, 2011 | 22:24Tonight Rick participates in the 64th annual Queens University Model Parliament in the actual House of Commons in Ottawa. He is Speaker of the House and then learns what it takes to be a parliamentary page. He also goes to Edmonton for the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race hosted by the University of Alberta and featuring students from across the country.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 13Jan 25, 2011 | 22:22Rick goes to a heavy construction machinery school in Morrisburg, Ontario where he learns how to operate a tower crane and drive an enormous bulldozer. Later he visits The Weather Network for on-the-job training with Chris St Clair and other forecasters.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 12Jan 18, 2011 | 22:25Rick goes to the Queen's Park legislative building in Toronto to see what a day is like in the life of David Onley, Ontario's first Lieutenant-Governor with a visible disability. Rick also checks out the vintage snowmobile races in Kincardine, ON.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 11Jan 11, 2011 | 22:28Rick is in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia where he and Ron James have a frigid New Year's Day Polar Bear Dip in the ocean. He is accompanied by blind author Ryan Knighton on a visit to the Vancouver Circus School where they learn trapeze, trampoline, and juggling skills.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 9Nov 30, 2010 | 22:26Rick goes helicopter logging in British Columbia and is in Regina where he joins RCMP cadets to build a Habitat for Humanity house in 48 hours.

Rick Mercer ReportSeason 8 - Episode 8Nov 23, 2010 | 22:25Rick is in Belleville, Ontario tonight at a tractor-trailer skid school where he mans an 18 wheeler as it skids through simulated black ice and later he heads to PEI for the potato harvest.